Launch HN: Bend (YC S22) – Automatically measure your company's carbon footprint

Hi HN! We’re Ted and Thomas from Bend ( https://bend.green/product ). We help companies measure their carbon emissions by connecting to your corporate bank account (Brex, Mercury, or any other financial institution on Plaid) and then estimating the impact of each purchase. Thomas and I found our way to this project via our background in fintech. Prior to Bend, I was a co-founder of Abacus (YC W14), a spend management company. At Abacus, we noticed that finance teams are increasingly paying attention to the climate impact of their purchase decisions, from travel policies, to cloud hosting, and beyond. We believe this 'spend based' approach is the key to unlocking scalable carbon accounting. Today, most carbon accounting is manual, conducted once a year, and takes weeks or months to complete. It's like doing your taxes. Fortunately, in the last couple years, we’ve started to reach a critical mass of good merchant data. It used to be that only a handful of co